Larry Williams Drive

From the commentary I’m seeing online, it’s clear there is a perception that no one reported on the Maiki Sherman revelation because the media were protecting one of their own. I can tell you that perception is true. It’s not imagined - it is true. It is not true for Newstalk ZB. And I’m not saying that because I’m employed by Newstalk ZB; I’m saying it because I was involved in some of the phone calls around this particular - shall we loosely call it - investigation. I know we tried to publish this but we ran into a couple of obstacles, which, frankly, happens with investigations. There’s no need to get too dramatic about it. I can’t tell you the number of things I’ve wanted to report on, or tried to report on, that I’ve never been able to. There’s a long list. I also don’t think the press gallery members who were at the party in Nicola Willis’ office last May can necessarily be judged for not reporting on what happened. As I said yesterday on the show, I worked in the press gallery too. I know there’s a lot